NY: To be a jazz musician and on top of your game, you have to practise, and this includes improvisation. People who don't understand improvisation think it just comes ‘out of thin air’. There are so many ways of engaging with it. Sometimes you can limit yourself to just a few notes. Quite often, people want to throw in the whole gamut of what they know – a mix of Lydian, blues and pentatonic scales, or a chord substitution – all in bar 1. Most great jazz musicians play inside the [chord] changes, even though it sounds like they're being ‘out there’.
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